Giving to a charity because you erroneously thought that you would be able to claim twice the donation back on tax. Does that make the giving to a cha...
It gets tricky. ...couldn't one find oneself doing the right thing, but for the wrong reason? Moreover, if you are doing the right thing, would it mat...
AH, but would you have spotted Bitter's point if you had not presented the argument here? There's a lot to be said for just putting out an idea. The a...
On the topic of corruption... https://images.theconversation.com/files/446188/original/file-20220214-19-1qrnfc8.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=...
One wonders if Scotty's religious pretensions are just that... pretences intended to gain support both from Christins and his fellow party members, wh...
Therefore... Take a close look. See how you say there are criteria that decide what is wrong, and yet conclude the there are not any such criteria? Th...
Earlier I suggested it was creeping anti-realism. Those who think only justified propositions are true are obliged to think unjustified propositions a...
"Here is a floor, here is a broom" - this statement is an act that expresses the same certainty as sweeping the floor. Sweeping and stating are both a...
Moyal-Sharrock does not use the phrase "hinge proposition". He talks of "hinges", and there is some small merit in the account he gives. @"Luke" is to...
No one took up the bet, but it seems Scotty has avoided a spill. For now. He's used a tried and true Liberal strategy: national security. He first tri...
Seems to me a general rule of thumb is that since there is nothing in the conclusion of a valid argument that is not implicit in the assumptions, any ...
Ah, I see. You are using an odd version of "different" - hence you have confused yourself. Siamese are different from other cats, lets' say. You want ...
Well, maybe. He's no thinker. Look at this thread, were he presented a supposed argument that consists of an invalid inference from confused assumptio...
That's not valid reasoning, and it's not cogent. All propositions are truth-bearing. If hinge propositions were sufficiently different to other propos...
If you like. It's just that you seem to be annoyed at a newbie for not responding, when their thread has been hijacked - you are upset a the wrong thi...
No. The problem goes beyond Luke to a half-dozen threads hereabouts. It seems to be an issue of basic literacy; as if folk have lost the capacity to f...
There's the problem. Assuming there could be such a thing as necessary existence. Two issues. First, this takes existence as a property. Second, it as...
Not being able to see that this is wrong is why you have presented such nonsense here, and why you have thoroughly failed to grasp what Wittgenstein f...
The misconceptions around propositions are odd, and appear to be becoming more common. I am beginning to think the construct "hinge proposition" is pr...
Several folk hav, but you haven't understood it. Doubt is a language game. Sometimes, you verge on making sense, as here: Or here: But as with your pe...
*sigh*. You've misunderstood, again, and as usual. Doubt takes place within a language game. What you suggest above is tantamount to someone, learning...
:lol: Well, to be fair, you were broken before I came along. The core error is in your thinking that god is outside of logic, as if logic were a limit...
:up: Nuh. That'd be the anti-realist error. That's right. SO what we have here is a problem with our understanding of "proposition". Seems as we diffe...
Well, the way you set this up, no. But I'm not seeing the point of the exercise. Pins are not the same as not-pins. What gave you that impression? Whe...
Yeah, I must have missed something. What is an "ordinary" proposition here? SO we have that in order to participate in some given language game, one m...
That is a damn good question. It's an issue of exegesis as well as epistemology. Did Wittgenstein think that beng beyond doubt was only within a given...
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